SEPTEMBER 12 | Living with Disability

LIVING WITH DISABILITY book launch: “About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times” and screening of Far From the Tree
Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson (R-L) dance rehearsal

THURSDAY / SEPTEMBER 12 / 5–8 PM

ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE 20 COOPER SQUARE, 7TH FLOOR COMMONS

LIVING WITH DISABILITY

5–6 PM BOOK LAUNCH: “About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times” with PETER CATAPANO (NY Times), ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON (Emory), RACHEL KOLB, and ALICE SHEPPARD

6–8 PM: SCREENING/DISCUSSION: Far From the Tree (92 mins, 2018, Dir: Rachel Dretzin). With ANDREW SOLOMON, RACHEL DRETZIN, JAMILA EPHRON, EMILY KINGSLEY, and JASON KINGSLEY

PRESENTED BY THE NYU CENTER FOR DISABILITY STUDIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES; NYU ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE; AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORP. WITH SUPPORT FROM NYU GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE; FAS DEANS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.

*Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson (R-L) rehearse for a Kinetic Light “Under Mountain” performance at the Whitney Museum in New York, NY. Photograph by Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times.